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Joined: March 16, 2006
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Name: Rick
I am fascinated by using very lo fi, toy video and toy webcams to create 'animations' of my own Abstract Electronica compositions.

I am a found and invented sound/live looping/abstract electronica/experimental artist with a strong minimalistic visual bent.

I have been a musician all my life and only recently have started to experiment with lo fi digital video and photography.

I grow increasingly tired of all the of MTV styled quick editing, visual maximalism that seems to dominate the media and films these days.

Lately I have been taking a series of 30 second videos that are incredibly lo fi
of subjects that are barely moving.

I hope to be incoroporating these into my live looping performances.

I have toured as a headliner in 12 countries in the past 3 years of my life as Loop.pooL
(Found Sound/Live Looping), nO thiN-g (dark ambient/noise/experimental) and UltraViolette (goth)

I live in Santa Cruz California with my wife who is an amazing musical artist and multi-instrumentalist.
City: Santa Cruz
Hometown: Santa Cruz
Country: United States
Occupation: Musician
Interests and Hobbies: Making electronic music Ethnic Percussion 60's Modal Jazz Goth and Industrial nightclubs Playing Pool Watching movies and DVDs
Movies and Shows: American Beauty, Chinatown, the Last Picture Show, Magnolia, Solaris (the original), Blade Runner (oddly enough, the one WITH the Harrison Ford noir narration---it's sadder and more romantic)
Music: Abstract Electronica, Goth/Industrial/EBM, Noise/Power Noise, Dark Ambient, Experimental, World Ethnic, 60's modal Jazz, Impressionism in Classical Music anything heartfelt, soulful and melancholy.............I love melancholy
Books: The Moviegoer Walker Percy A Christmas Memory Truman Capote almost anything by Henry Miller and Haruki Murakami Detective novels by Swedish author Henning Mankell Science Fiction by John Varley
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Videos (19)
ORANGE title cut from my new Abstract Electronica project
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[TRANSLATED] ORANGE title cut from my new Abstract Electronica project
Driving late at night near my dad's house, shot with a terrible radio shack came...
2 years ago 2,294 views looppool
DRIVE
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[TRANSLATED] DRIVE
[TRANSLATED] DRIVE
This one speaks for itself......a rather melancholy drive to a gig in Morgan Hill ...
1 year ago 1,218 views looppool
FLOCKING
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[TRANSLATED] FLOCKING
My dear Father passed away this past week and in the struggle to deal with that lo...
2 years ago 586 views looppool
IDLING ON THE BACKROADS
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[TRANSLATED] IDLING ON THE BACKROADS
[TRANSLATED] IDLING ON THE BACKROADS
I purchased a sound activated plastic star at a toy store today and then took ultr...
3 years ago 956 views looppool
IRAMA
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[TRANSLATED] IRAMA
[TRANSLATED] IRAMA
this is a continuation of my lo fi series..........using toy lighting devices and ...
3 years ago 861 views looppool
ORB
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[TRANSLATED] ORB
[TRANSLATED] ORB
Almost all of what you see in this film was a physical manipulation of a night lig...
3 years ago 1,786 views looppool
EVERY THREE SECONDS
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[TRANSLATED] EVERY THREE SECONDS
[TRANSLATED] EVERY THREE SECONDS
shot in the parking lot of a deserted car dealership. There are a disturbing numb...
6 months ago 199 views looppool
BROKEN MUSIC BOX
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[TRANSLATED] BROKEN MUSIC BOX
[TRANSLATED] BROKEN MUSIC BOX
I have been fascinated with very static minimalist videos taken with my 30 second ...
3 years ago 1,642 views looppool
The Path Not Taken
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[TRANSLATED] The Path Not Taken
[TRANSLATED] The Path Not Taken
A third in a series of extremely lo tech and looped videos taken with a terrible R...
3 years ago 1,128 views looppool
Channel Comments (16)
Blacklightroom (5 months ago)
oh finally.. i begin to find like minds more and moreso - thanks for sharing -

regards from chicago - joey kay -
WireMosasaur (8 months ago)
Sorry, I meant "flocking" not "last christmas with Dad". For some reason I mixed them up.
WireMosasaur (8 months ago)
Hiya Rick! I finally managed to find your YouTube channel. Some of these videos are just amazingly cool. I particularly love Adios Dr Z, last christmas with Dad, and I really really love the broken music box. It took me ages to work out what I was seeing.
Looking forward to more awesome vid/audio combinations from you!
-Alia (Jana's weird kid)
ungratefulrobot (9 months ago)
I like this song.
peddiex (1 year ago)
sub 4 sub i sucribe to you now
OptykMuse (1 year ago)
Hi Rick! I miss Woodstockhausen!! Loved it in Wayne's back yard.
Great videos BTW. :)
PSYCHADELIKCIRCUS (1 year ago)
COOOOOooooOOOL
stemcellfilms (1 year ago)
I love your videos, there's something about them thats just so organic.
psytripppppper (1 year ago)
Thanks for your compliments on my work. I like what you're doing, we do have a lot in common.
scanretina (2 years ago)
Hiya, thanks for your open mind! Getting a bit rough on the feedback comments... sod 'em!
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